Newman compares influence and system, qualities recognized in Athens and Rome, with two types of institutions in the Catholic Church, namely the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and religious orders. He makes an analogy between the Oratory of St...

Athens provided the intellectual genius for universities, and Roman West the practical character. Christianity gave solidity to both these elements accomplishing the beautiful ideal of Athens as put forth by some of her famous orators. Pericles...

The concept of a university starting at Athens developed through time. Experience has shown that a university requires more than genius on the part of professors. After asserting that outstanding teachers are the foundation for a university...

In his first articles for the University Gazette of the Catholic University of Ireland Newman had indicated the primary role played by university professors. Newman’s friend objected: “I cannot help thinking that your Gazette makes...

After noting that good professors make a university, Newman addressed the question of whether professors from other countries would be welcomed to the University in Ireland. Newman tells of a conversation with wealthy old friend, a retired...

Universities need tranquility and freedom to thrive just as the Church needs these conditions to teach its doctrine and form its children without prohibitions. Newman told the Irishmen for whom he wrote that they enjoyed those circumstances. The...

Any group that begins a university today is met not only with the difficulty of the actual organizational task; it is met with incredulity and pessimistic remarks on the part of many. Newman and the Irish bishops faced this in Dublin, and today...

Excerpt from Take Five: Meditations with John Henry Newman, page 66: 17. Faith’s Power of Persuasion Newman articulated the idea that man knows spiritual realities by multiple impressions and associations of the mind and heart, and the witness of...

Today one cannot conceive of a university without many libraries filled with books and data bases. But what is essential in a university? What is at the very heart of university education? Newman continues describing the life of students at...

Ch. 4. University Life: Athens Now Newman turns to provide a portrait of university life at Athens. It is a more realistic description of city and the students who went there to study. Athens attracted men of quite different conditions...

On the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus we consider Love itself who became Incarnate. Blessed John Henry Newman praises the ineffable love of the Triune God. Newman considers how love is the reason for the Incarnation, and how out of...